GOOOOOAAAAAAALLLLLLL!

Ethan scores in soccer- TWICE!

Ethan had 2 soccer games yesterday; he's just started playing with an under 8 indoor soccer league. The group of kids were just thrown together and they just got their coach at the first game, so they hadn't had any practices together and were pretty disorganized, and of course there are varying abilities on the team.

Anyway, Ethan scored a goal on EACH game! I am so excited for him, how great.

He's been playing soccer about 1x/year since he was 3 on the very low-brow YMCA team, which (I think, rightly so) values participation over competitiveness. He's alway readily playd but not really loved it, until last fall. All of a sudden he LOVED it. I think partly because he started to understand the point of the running back and forth over and over, and partly because he realized if he tried really hard, and got in there for the ball, he could get some kicks in and maybe even score. Well, on the fall YMCA team he did try really hard, and ran really fast, and was tough enough to get in there for the ball, but he never scored a goal.

Until last night. Never mind that the team was disorganized, that they ran all over the field, that in both games his team had painful loses. Ethan scored. Twice. And we're so excited for him!